The significance of the April 26 U.S.-sponsored meeting at the U.S. Ramstein Air Base in Germany on coordinating the supply of weapons to the Kiev regime, is that the U.S./U.K.-driven effort to destroy Russia via Ukraine has gone way beyond NATO, even beyond Global NATO. The meeting, attended by a reported 40 countries from around the world including not only NATO members but also “partners'’ based in Africa, Asia, and Southwest Asia, will become a monthly affair which “will be a vehicle for nations of good will to intensify our efforts and coordinate our assistance and focus on winning today’s fight and the struggles to come,” said Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in a press conference following the meeting.
A key focus of these meetings will be improved coordination with participating nations’ defense industrial bases, Austin added. “That means dealing with the tremendous demand that we’re facing for munitions and weapons platforms.”
Defense News, in reporting on the meeting, noted that in March, U.S. European Command created a new unit called the European Control Center Ukraine (ECCU), to coordinate and synchronize equipment deliveries from Washington and its partners. Fifteen other countries, some NATO members and some not, have provided staff for the ECCU, located at U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart, a senior defense official told reporters on Tuesday.
Defense News also notes that the center has worked to rapidly ramp up deliveries to Ukraine, with flights to Europe going from less than one per day at the beginning to 8-10 flights per day now, delivering weapons from over 40 nations to Ukraine.
